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Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation at a glance

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Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$500k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$1.8MArts & Culture$734kHealth$334kPhilanthropy$303kEnvironment$20kCivil Rights$20kReligion$15kEducation$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$150,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CENTER FOR LAW BRAIN BEHAVIOR$200,000
WIZO USA$150,000
WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY$150,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MY FRIENDS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%BELEV ECHAD: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 18% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 14 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
22

Total granted

$3.1M
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+40%

Still filing today

64%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WI
    WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +51%
  • WI
    WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $700k · revenue +23%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $150k · revenue +307%

Funded once

  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • PL
    PJ LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +40%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
3
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
4
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
5
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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6
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
7
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
8
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…

Religion
9
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
10
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc

Since 1914, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) has acted on behalf of North America's Jewish communities and others to fulfill the principle that "kol Yisrael arevim zeh l'zeh" - all Jews are responsible for one…

International
11
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
12
American Friends of Mosdos Montreal Inc

To promote and enhance jewish religious observance in canada

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repair the World; the most unlike its peers is Shared Hope International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $1,120,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICYWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $700,000 · InternationalWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION+3 more: $14,500 · InternationalDUKE UNIVERSITY NASHER MUSEUM: $500,000 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY NASHER MUSEUMMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CENTER FOR LAW BRAIN BEHAVIOR: $300,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CENTER…THE JEWISH FEDERATION: $200,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATION+16 more: $87,800 · Other+16 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $63,750 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $14,000 · Arts & CultureRALEIGH-CARY JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,663 · PhilanthropyENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 · HealthBELEV ECHAD INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 · Human ServicesMY FRIENDS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Human Services
International$1,834,500Other$1,087,800Arts & Culture$227,750Philanthropy$102,663Environment$20,000Health$17,500Human Services$9,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $1,120,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $700,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC: $150,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetRALEIGH-CARY JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $63,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC: $2,663 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REAL BARK THE RESPONSIBLE ETHICAL ANIMAL LEAGUE: $2,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Blerancourt Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPAIR THE WORLD: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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